Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door't Way-Gat, by Noorden Noorwegen, Moscovien ende Tartarien om, na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China. Met drie schepen, uyt Texel ghezeylt in den iare 1594
Subtitle: Hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia, Samoyeda, ende Tingœsa. Seer vreemt en vermaackelijck om lesen
Contributors: Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639
Publisher: Voor Ioost Hartgers, Boeck-verkooper in de Gasthuys-steegh, in de boeck-winckel, bezijden het Stadt-huys
Published: 1648
Place of publication: T'Amsterdam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie; Discovery and exploration; Dutch
Notes: Caption title on p. 1 lists the author's name: Kort verhael van d'eerste schip-vaerdt ... Getogen uyt het Iournael van Gerrit de Veer.

Originally published  Amsterdam, 1598, under title Waerachtighe beschrijvinghe. This abridged version first published in Isaac Commelin's Begin ende voortgang, Amsterdam 1644 (?), here published as a pirated ed. by Joost Hartgers and again in 1650 as the first voyage in his Oost en West-Indische Voyagien (see Alden, European Americana for details)

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶ (D6 verso blank)

Text includes the third voyage of Willem Barentsz., Description of Siberia, Samoeida, and Tingoesa, as found in the journals of Gerrit de Veer, and Discours of Johannes I. Pontanus.

Woodcut title vignette of two ships under sail, historiated initial; the six engravings printed in the text depicting Willem Barentsz. travels to the Northpole in the 1650 ed. are here gathered into one double plate.

Virgules in the imprint have been replaced by commas. Text set in black letter type; side notes.

European Americana 648/191.

JCB Lib. cat. pre-1675, II:370.

Tiele, P.A. Journaux navigateurs, 113k.

John Carter Brown Library has 2 copies of the second ed. of 1650 printed for Joost Hartgers (copy 1: F650 V419v; copy 2: F648 C734o)

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased with the assistance of the Lathrop Colgate Harper Trust Fund.